Sentences with phrase «interesting young film»

Not exact matches

The film has not only put a long deserved spotlight on the team of African - American women who literally charted the course that would eventually put man on the moon, but it has also inspired many young women to pursue interests in STEM.

I think the problem is that the film arrived before local industries set their rules on this, says the helmer about South Korean exhibitors demanding Teen film is a film genre targeted at teenagers and young adults in which the plot is based upon the special interests of teenagers and young adults, such

Fairly decent film which isn't entirely original or well acted but the young cast do OK to keep you interested (especially the girls hehe).

One of Elvis Presley's best films, Viva Las Vegas benefits from the exuberant direction of MGM vet George Sidney, the young and sexy Ann - Margret as romantic interest, and over 12 melodic songs that take up half of the running time (only 85 minutes).

Giving needed life lessons to the new / younger generation, while still caring about it's older audience, this film balances the old and the new in such an interesting way.

Well, there's a lot more to the plot, but I don't want to spoil the great surprises... I will say that... Emily Blunt and a wonderful young actor, Pierce Gagnon, who plays Blunt's very special son, as well as Jeff Daniels, who's an extremely interesting, bad ass gangsta, all play essential roles in this exciting, orginal film.

The Beijing - raised, London - and Mount Holyoke — educated filmmaker shares with the American Honey helmer an interest in young people at the margins, a knack for eliciting fantastic performances from amateur or under - the - radar actors, and what film critic April Wolfe described to me as a «dream - like realism.»

The film skews young, to be sure, and it isn't as memorable as the new Disney classics of the early 1990s, but there's still plenty here to hold the interest of viewers of all ages: delightful performances (particularly by Dench, plowing Angela Lansbury terrain), zinging comic dialogue and a soundtrack that's a wealth of sonorous riches.

Despite the film's impressively epic look and an interesting cast of young and old actors, it ringingly sounds the same dour note over and over again.

Beginning, intriguingly, in 1949 with a young Castro (Victor Huggo Martin) as a clean - shaven lawyer incensed by certain acts of vandalism perpetrated by the American Navy in Havana, the film promises to draw an interesting connection to Gandhi's legal background and, most fascinatingly, the starkly different ways these two revolutionary leaders conduct their rebellions (and to what eventual purposes).

Theoretically, this could be quite salutary, as Reygadas is developing into one of the world's most interesting and consistently surprising directors; his Post Tenebras Lux is easily one of the most anticipated Cannes competition films (and happens to be my advance pick as most likely to win the Palme d'Or), and younger Mexican and South American filmmakers unabashedly look to Reygadas as a model of artistic independence to follow.

«Lymelife» looks interesting, a film seen through the eyes of a young boy, portrayed by Rory Culkin, and what happens when an outbreak of Lyme disease hits a small town.

While the films marks Olsen's screen debut and is certainly the most anticipated of her upcoming features, it's hardly the only place she'll appear: The 22 - year - old has already shot four other films, including the dramatic comedy «Peace, Love and Misunderstanding» opposite Jane Fonda and Catherine Keener, and she plays Josh Radnor's younger friend and love interest in the college - set «Liberal Arts.»

Rockwell looks young for 47, but his nearly thirty - year career in film creates — for me, at least — an insurmountable age gap when casting him as the star of Pitch Perfect's love interest.

On the one hand, the film kept me interested much better than its «dirty old man lusts after young lady» premise suggests.

The film is so beholden to the moods and manners of Malick that even its more estimable elements (the acting, the cinematography, the very conceit of making a movie about Abraham Lincoln that focuses exclusively on what's ostensibly the least interesting part of his life, sort of a Younger Mr. Lincoln) are diffused into the ether.

If «Bennet Miller's Passion Project» weren't enought o pique your interest, the film stars Channing Tatum as a young wrestler, and Mark Ruffalo as his doomed brother, with, in a potentially brilliantly disconcerting piece of against - type casting, Steve Carell as the wealthiest American ever to be charged with and convicted of murder.

Likewise, another relevant and highly interesting inclusion would have been Mei and the Kittenbus, a 15 - minute short film featuring the younger sister from Totoro and the spawn of the Catbus.

He gets to the heart of what the film is so excellent at portraying: that the discussion of identity in popular media can be thorough, articulate and perception shifting; that women's voices are an interesting and vital part of the narrative; and that young, or unsung talents can prove their worth on their own terms — approval not needed.

Other topics this film is interested in: anti-Semitic sentiment in France, the systemic and lofty ambitions of France's cinema to boost itself through nationalist rhetoric, uneducated young women and another half - dozen ideas scattered helter skelter.

The film appears as interested in developing the strange relationship between Korben and the two young women as it is in exploring the possibility that Kate can really speak with spirits (for a far superior TIFF film that explores this idea, see Olivier Assayas» «Personal Shopper» starring Kristen Stewart).

I'm a big fan of The Beatles and was interested in learning more about their formation and early days, and while Nowhere Boy isn't as much about the band as it is Lennon's younger years, it's still an incredibly well - directed film that most Beatles fans will enjoy.

Her young son Cid, played very well by Pierce Gagnon, is one of the more interesting characters in the film.

An Education — I'd expect that a film about a young girl in 1962 who's so infatuated with the life of the Parisian intellectual (jazz, cigarettes, New Wave movies) that she dates an older man to have at least a sense of why that Parisian lifestyle is so interesting.

TCM programming director Charlie Tabesh explained at the press conference: «We try to get everyone interested in classic film, young and old.

Audrey Hepburn stopped making movies right around the time the «New Hollywood» started gearing up, though not because she didn't have any interest in the more daring kinds of films being made, and not because the younger generation of producers and directors didn't want her.

Like his father Ivan (Ghostbusters) Jason Reitman has shown himself to be a sure hand at helming comedy, and his less commercial sensibility has resulted in films as spiky and interesting as Young Adult, Juno, Up in the Air and Thank You For Smoking...

While the slower pacing in the beginning of the film, as well as the focus on the strength and empowerment of all three young women may not interest fans of «more traditional» westerns, the film is a fantastic look at the willpower and resolve of three strong capable women in the face of some of the worst conditions that war can bring about.

Scorsese told the audience that if you're young and you find this of any interest, you may seek out some of the films he was talking about and learn other filmmakers» ways of thinking of other cultures and to see the universal connection of our shared humanity.

Another interesting quote to point out from their article is that even Baghead's sales representatives noted that «the film has a younger audience than [SPC] traditionally target [s].»

Even so, a young person seriously interested in film has little sense, these days, that he is part of a community.

So, it would be interesting to see a younger Pym star in his own television spin - off if the film is successful.

Dearest Edgar: As an aspiring film maker and a self - proclaimed cinephile, i must say i truly admire your work, although i'm «young» i've always been interested in art and your work is truly inspirational to me, i can't really put into words how happy your movies make me, hopefully in the future i'll get to make great movies like you too, i'd just like to thank you for directing such great movies!!!

(Janez Burger, 1999, Slovenia) Usually, films about bored young men reluctant to grow up don't interest me, but Idle Running is...

With a glimpse at a wider underworld and a few developments in the film's final moments, there are hints of other, more interesting chapters to come in the Young Han Solo story.

A recent deep - dive article dedicated to the 20th anniversary of John Woo's Face / Off reveals a very interesting alternate version of that film, with Nicolas Cage potentially having gone up against a young Johnny Depp instead of John Travolta.

«Get the Scoop» (9:35) is a mock news report that wavers between a genuine behind - the - scenes featurette and a jokey piece meant to pander to youngers, who surely wouldn't be interested in a serious look at the film's making.

Although there's an undeniable «Scooby - Doo» - like quality to the film, it'll be interesting to see how directors Chris Butler and Sam Fell manage the creepiness factor after many complained that «Coraline» was too scary for younger kids.

Both stars have noticeably aged in the nine years since the first film, but it's the younger Tucker who got old first, never seeming like he is interested in pushing himself any further than he already has as a comedian or entertainer, content to dole out the same old shtick that made him a star a decade ago.

Going through the process of writing the film and working with my co-writer, Joe Robert Cole, I thought Shuri would be a cool Q. It'd be really interesting seeing a young African teenager who's manipulated this element in ways that nobody else could and who's confident and able to have her own space.

There is also a great deal of time spent exploring the torch carried by Rosie's daughter on one of her classmates, and while this is certainly not a complete burden on the spirit of the film, I wonder why so much time is given to exploring such pursuits when whatever parallels one can draw between the two different love interests, the older and younger, are so minimal.

It's live - action 70s Disney, so it doesn't carry the esteem of the classics and masterpieces of the studio's past films, but Escape to Witch Mountain is certainly likeable enough to be a favorite among kids interested in fantasy films about young people like them with magical abilities.

Screenwriter Kelley Sane generally does an effective job of balancing the various characters and their respective storylines, though there's certainly no denying that some of these subplots are far more interesting than others (ie there's a seemingly pointless digression concerning an illicit relationship between two young Arabs, the relevance of which isn't made clear until the film's final moments).

Based on the Jeffrey Eugenides book, the film is a mystery investigating why a group of sisters eventually all took their lives which happens here via a group of young men in their neighborhood interested in them.

None of the rest of his films were quite up there with those three, but they were still very enjoyable fantasies that also continue to have an audience today and sell well on home video: «First Men in the Moon» (1964), based on the H.G. Wells story; another dinosaur epic, «One Million Years B.C.» (1966), most famous for the image of Raquel Welch in a fur bikini; «The Valley of Gwangi» (1969), an interesting blend of dinosaur thrills and a conventional Western; and two more «Sinbad» epics, «The Golden Voyage of Sinbad» (1974) and «Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger» (1977), the latter co-starring young Jane Seymour.

However, the film is way less interested in being a gory horror film that it is about exploring a loss of innocence and the rapid maturity of a young woman finally living on her own.

The Limehouse Golem Juan Carlos Medina, UK, 2016, 105m In Victorian London, Scotland Yard inspector John Kildare (a great Bill Nighy, in a role originally meant for Alan Rickman, to whom the film is dedicated) takes a special interest in the well - being of Lizzie Cree (Olivia Cooke), a young stage performer accused of murdering her husband.

Had the film played the interesting premise it proposes from its start, it could have made for a solid Shyamalan thriller; instead it unsatisfactorily raises a variety of issues and subplots (young romance, the journey).

The girls» romances and social statuses are of chief interest to the series and their experiences with both involve the other young personalities from the film.

Bill Pohlad, a producer who has overseen such films as Brokeback Mountain, Into the Wild, Tree of Life, and 12 Years a Slave, as well as the musically inclined biopic The Runaways, makes his directorial debut (technically a sophomore effort as his original debut was canned in the early 1990s) with a biopic of The Beach Boys» Brian Wilson that, while not a perfect film, is an interesting and sometimes illuminating portrait of an artist as a young and older man.